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In the Company of Men
In the Company of Men (1997)
, 1h37
Directed by Neil LaBute
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Stacy Edwards, Jesse D. Goins

Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Malloy) are two middle management employees at a corporation, temporarily assigned to a branch office away from home for six weeks. Howard is assigned to head up the project. Embittered by bad experiences with women, they form a revenge scheme to find an insecure woman, romance her simultaneously, and then break up with her at the same time. Chad, who is cruel, manipulative, duplicitous, and abusive to his subordinates, is the originator and driving force behind the scheme, while Howard is the more passive of the two, which leads to a later conflict with the scheme.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
, 1h57
Directed by Mike Newell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about disabilities, LGBT-related films, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation, Films about marriage, LGBT-related film
Actors Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas

The film follows the adventures of a group of friends through the eyes of Charles (Hugh Grant), a good-natured but socially awkward Briton, who is smitten with Carrie (Andie MacDowell), an American whom Charles repeatedly meets at four weddings and at a funeral.
Code Unknown
Code Unknown (2000)
, 1h57
Directed by Michael Haneke
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Djibril Kouyaté, Luminița Gheorghiu, Bruno Todeschini

The film features several different storylines, all of which intersect periodically throughout the film. The film's opening scene features a brief encounter with four of the main characters: Anne Laurent (Juliette Binoche) is an actress working in Paris, and she walks briefly with her boyfriend's younger brother Jean. After they part, Jean throws a piece of garbage at Maria, a homeless woman sitting on the side of the road. Amadou, the child of Malian immigrants, witnesses this and confronts Jean. The two fight, and eventually Amadou and Maria are both taken to a police station for questioning. Amadou is released presumably shortly after, though we learn that he was held, beaten and shamed, but Maria is deported to her native Romania and she reconnects with her family there.
Man of a Thousand Faces
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
, 2h2
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about television, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Jim Backus, Robert Evans, Troy Donahue

In the early 1900s, actor Lon Chaney (James Cagney) is working in vaudeville with his wife Cleva (Dorothy Malone). Chaney quits the show and Cleva announces that she is pregnant. Lon is happy and tells Cleva that he has been hired by the famous comedy team Kolb and Dill for an upcoming show.
Sign Gene
Sign Gene (2017)
, 1h10
Origin Italie
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Lauren Ridloff

L’agent secret de Q.I.A. (QuinPar Intelligence Agency - un centre à New York associé au Pentagone et comprenant des agents mutés de « Sign Gene ») Tom Clerc est sourd comme sa famille depuis plusieurs générations et descendant de Laurent Clerc, figure importante chez les membres de la communauté sourde. Il est vecteur de « SGx29 », une mutation de Sign Gene ultra-puissante, sauf qu’il en a perdu une partie importante de ses pouvoirs pendant le combat avec son propre frère ennemi Jux Clerc, également sourd. Ce dernier appartient à un organisme appelée « 1.8.8.0 » ayant pour mission d’exterminer les porteurs de Sign Gene.
The Grand Ball
The Grand Ball (2018)
, 1h40
Directed by Laetitia Carton
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Dance films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation

Passionnée de danse traditionnelle, Laetitia Carton fréquente depuis plusieurs années le Grand Bal de l'Europe, qui attire chaque été plusieurs milliers de participants à Gennetines, en Auvergne. Le film raconte le bal à travers ses danseurs, ses musiciens, les histoires et les rencontres qui s'y font et défont...
Universal Signs
Universal Signs (2008)

Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Sabrina Lloyd, Lupe Ontiveros, Margot Kidder, Robert Picardo, Aimee Garcia, Troy Kotsur

After the death of his fiancée’s daughter while in his care, Andrew (Anthony Natale), a Deaf artist, becomes a prisoner of his own mind. Tormented day and night by memories and self-blame, Andrew falls in a downward spiral of depression and anger that alienates everyone around him. It is only through a serendipitous friendship and new love with Mary (Sabrina Lloyd) that Andrew is able to sense the life around him – forgive himself, rediscover his muse, and experience the transformative power of love.
High Heels
High Heels (1991)
, 1h53
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about disabilities, LGBT-related films, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Victoria Abril, Féodor Atkine, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, Anna Lizaran, Cristina Marcos

Rebeca, a TV news broadcaster, is at Madrid's airport anxiously awaiting the return of her mother whom she has not seen since she was a child. Her mother, Becky del Páramo, a famous torch song singer, is coming back to Spain after a fifteen-year stay in Mexico. While waiting, Rebeca recalls incidents from her childhood in which her mother let her in the background of her life preoccupied with her career and her romantic life. For fifteen years Rebeca has longed for her mother to come back and for the love and affection of which she had been deprived. Nevertheless, her love is accompanied by a deep resentment.
Orphan
Orphan (2009)
, 2h3
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about adoption, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, L'usurpation d'identité, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about school violence, Escroquerie, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Margo Martindale

Kate and John Coleman (Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard) are experiencing strains in their marriage after their third child was stillborn. The loss is particularly hard on Kate, who is also recovering from alcoholism. The couple decides to adopt a 9-year-old Russian girl, Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) from a local orphanage. While Kate's and John's deaf daughter Max (Aryana Engineer) embraces Esther immediately, their son Daniel (Jimmy Bennett) is less welcoming. Kate suspects that there might be problems in Esther's background when Esther's knowledge of sex extends beyond her age. Her suspicions deepen when Esther seriously injures another girl who had bullied her.
The Tribe
The Tribe (2014)
, 2h10
Directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Origin Ukraine
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Feminist films, Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about disabilities, Political films, Erotic thriller films, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation

A young shy boy arrives at a boarding school for the deaf. There he tries to find his place in the hierarchy of the school community, which operates like a Mafiosi group ruled by the King.